ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

I’m not just disengaging like a “coward” then?

For the love of fuck please learn to read. You’re not required to engage at all, but you keep doing so. Once you realise the people you’re talking to can’t just be shouted down as Tankies, you turn tail and run.

when I try to manage my compulsions by disengaging in advance

What did I tell you about lying? You never do it in advance. You never try to manage your compulsions. You made this entire thread specifically to argue with Tankies because you absolutely indulge your compulsions until it gets too much and you can hold up autism as a defence of your shitty behaviour. Fuck you.

which exact ML behaviours do you think make me disbelieve in left unity?

All the ones that conclusively demonstrated a stateless society is utterly powerless against a state.

You act against left unity because ???

Sib, you, personally, are not a political ideology. I’m not being sectarian, I work with plenty of anarchists, I’m just saying you, as an individual, are a dickhead.

Oh I didn’t know I’m obliged to argue with every hexbear

You’re not, except you do. Do you really expect me to believe you simply find it tiresome talking to us when you’ll reply to everything you think you can argue back about?

It’s not sectarianism when we were never in the same camp.

Look, I know you keep loudly screaming this, but it’s only you, personally, who isn’t in the same camp as anyone else, anarchists and MLs are definitely allies IRL. In trying to speak for other anarchists you’re being sectarian.

And yeah, I also know you don’t believe in left unity - we’ve been over this, you’re the one who posted the sectarian meme (yes it is sectarian, as explained above) - but you say you don’t believe in it because of ML’s behaviours, when you’re the one actively pushing them away. YOU are the one acting against left unity, while saying it’s MLs who act against it. Honestly, it’s a bit embarrassing you’re so hung up on your hatred of left unity that you can’t even keep track of what you’re doing right now.

No you don’t you liar, you get scared and run away:

You’re criticising us about left unity when you started a thread specifically to be sectarian, and now you’re DARVOing and projecting your own hypocrisy onto us. What in the world makes you think we’re the ones showing our asses?

Do me a favour, scroll up, and check who started this thread. You don’t get to go around whining about left unity when you’re the sectarian fuck purposely fighting against it.

The 3.x tarrasque became a joke, but that was a result of the extensive options combined with people’s system understanding - sure a single wizard could kill it, but that still needed to be played by someone who understood the system. It was a system that gave unlimited options, so if you worked out how to combine enough of them you could break the system wide open, and the tarrasque was a great yardstick for that.

Then you come to 5e’s tarrasque and it’s so badly designed that it’s obvious from a glance that a level 1 character with flight can just hover above it and plink it down with a bow. I’ve seen 3.5’s brought up in comparison to that, but not as an example of difficult fights in a vacuum.

My players like to save their worst rolls for perception checks to find secret doors. Even when they specifically know there’s a secret door and just need to work out how to open it, out comes a parade of 1s and 2s.

Pf2e is very well made in that optimisation generally adds up to a few points of damage difference in a white room, while good tactics on the battlefield can make for literally hundreds of points of damage difference. It really frees you up to take feats because you think they’ll be interesting or add to your character, instead of being pigeonholed by optimal choices.

5e’s bounded accuracy is why you “can’t” make a mechanically strong character, not the lack of choices. The rolls matter that much more than your bonuses that a character who is mechanically strong on paper can be outdone by a mechanically weak character that rolls slightly better.
Try PF2 and you’ll see how mandatory balance and simplicity of play can be combined with lots of choices.